Name: The Bond Between
Released: 1917
Cast: George Beban, John Burton, Nigel De Brullier, Paul Weigel, Colin Chase

Cast & Crew

Film Details

Also Known As

Amen Corner

Release Date

Apr 2, 1917

Premiere Information

not available

Production Company

Pallas Pictures

Distribution Company

Paramount Pictures Corp.

Country

United States

Synopsis

Pierre Duval, a poor Frenchman living in a New York boardinghouse, is barely able to support his son Jacques's studies in a Parisian art school. When war breaks out, Jacques returns home, unaware that a disreputable art dealer named Raoul Vaux has tricked him into smuggling stolen paintings into the United States, hidden among his own works. The Secret Service suspects that Jacques is Vaux and send their agent, Ellen Ingram, to entrap him. She goes to live at the same boardinghouse as Pierre and Jacques and soon becomes friendly with them. To support himself and his son, Pierre takes on an extra job as a nightwatchman at a museum. When Jacques learns through Ellen that "Vaux" is an art thief who plans to steal some paintings from the museum where Pierre works, he tries to prevent the theft, but is arrested himself instead. Finally, the real Vaux is captured, and Pierre and Jacques receive a reward from the French government for helping to recover stolen paintings. Financially secure, Jacques is now able to marry Ellen, with whom he has fallen in love.